(1)  The Owners' Representatives for all Regional Corporations are to establish a committee consisting of –

(a) the Chairperson; and

(b) a person, approved by an ordinary majority of the Owners' Representatives for all Regional Corporations, with expertise in the water and sewerage sector; and

(c) a person, approved by an ordinary majority of the Owners' Representatives for all Regional Corporations, with expertise in corporate governance and the nomination or appointment of members of boards; and

(d) the Secretary of the responsible Department in relation to the Public Account Act 1986 .

(2)  Any person, including directors of a Corporation, may nominate for consideration by the Selection Committee any one or more persons as candidates for appointment as the Chairperson or other director of a Corporation.

(3)  The Selection Committee, after making due enquiry if it considers it necessary, is to submit to the Owners' Representatives for a Regional Corporation a list of one or more names of persons suitable for appointment as –

(a) Chairperson; or

(b) the common directors of any Regional Corporation; or

(c) the regional directors of that Regional Corporation.

(4)  The Selection Committee, after making due enquiry if it considers it necessary, is to submit to the members of the Common Services Corporation a list of one or more names of persons suitable for appointment as additional directors of the Common Services Corporation.

(5)  Each person included in the list of names of persons referred to in subsection (3) or (4) is to be a person who, in the opinion of the Selection Committee, has –

(a) the experience and skills necessary to assist the relevant Corporation to achieve its principal objectives; and

(b) in the case of a regional director, connection or familiarity with the region applicable to the relevant Regional Corporation.

(6)  Despite subsections (2) , (3) , (4) and (5) , none of the following persons may be appointed as a director of a Corporation:

(a) any current Owners' Representative;

(b) any current member of the Selection Committee other than the Chairperson;

(c) any person who has served as an elected government official at any time within the 3 years preceding the intended date of appointment;

(d) any person who currently holds office as an elected government official or who is currently an employee of any council.

(7)  The Selection Committee is to provide advice to the Owners' Representatives in relation to appropriate remuneration and allowances payable to directors.

(8)  The Selection Committee may regulate its own proceedings as it considers appropriate, including the calling of, and the conduct of business at, its meetings.

(9)  The current Chairperson must not be present at or take part in any consultations, discussions or decisions by the Selection Committee in relation to the appointment of any person to the role of Chairperson.

(10)  The Selection Committee may permit its members to participate in a particular meeting or all meetings by telephone, video conference or any other means of communication and a member who participates in a meeting as permitted under this subsection is taken to be present at the meeting.

(11)  If the number of members of the Selection Committee that constitutes a special majority signs a document containing a statement that they are in favour of a resolution or proposal set out in the document, a resolution or proposal in those terms is taken to have been passed or agreed to at a meeting of the Selection Committee on the day on which the document is signed or, if the members of the Selection Committee do not sign it on the same day, on the day on which the last of the members of the Selection Committee signs the document.

(12)  For the purposes of subsection (11) , 2 or more separate documents containing a statement in identical terms, each of which is signed by one or more members of the Selection Committee, is taken to constitute one document.

(13)  The members of the Selection Committee are to be paid such fees and allowances as the Owners' Representatives for all Regional Corporations collectively determine from time to time.

(14)  Each Regional Corporation is required to contribute an equal share of a fee or allowance that becomes payable under subsection (13) .

(15)  The Owners' Representatives for all Regional Corporations may, by special majority, remove any person other than the persons referred to in subsection (1)(a) and (d) from the role of a member of the Selection Committee.